Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles

present writer, but were reproduced from standard works, upon what seemed to be good authority--that of his youngest daughter and his intimate friend, the late Wilhelm Liebknech...

Changed attitude of the public mind toward Socialism--Growth of the movement responsible for the change--Unanimity of friends and foes concerning the future triumph of Socialism...

Utopian Socialism and Robert Owen--Estimates of Owen by Liebknecht and Engels--His early life--Becomes a manufacturer--The industrial revolution in England--Introduction of mach...

The _Communist Manifesto_ called the birth-cry of modern Socialism--Conditions in 1848 when it was issued--Communism of the working class--Weitling and Cabet--Marx's parents bec...

Socialism a theory of social evolution--Not economic fatalism--Leibnitz and the savage--Ideas and progress--Value of the materialistic conception of history--Foreshadowings of t...

A new form of class division arises in the first stage of capitalism--The second stage of capitalism begins with the great mechanical inventions--The development of foreign and...

Opposition to the doctrine--Misrepresentations by the opponents of Socialism--Socialists not the creators of the class struggle--Antiquity of class struggles--The theory as stat...

First comprehensive statement of the materialist conception of history by Marx--_La Misère de la Philosophie_, a criticism of Proudhon--Marx's first essay in economic science--H...

The sociological viewpoint pervades all Marx's work--Commodities defined--Use-values and economic values--Exchange of commodities through the medium of money--The labor theory o...

Detailed specifications impossible--Principles which must characterize it--Man's egoism and sociability--Socialism and Individualism not opposites--The idea of the Socialist sta...

Impossible to tell definitely how the change will be brought about--Possible only to point out tendencies making for Socialism, and to show how the change _can_ be brought about...

It is not a long time since the kindest estimate of Socialism by the average man was that expressed by Ebenezer Elliott, "the Corn-Law Rhymer," in the once familiar cynical dogg...

As a background to modern, or scientific, Socialism there is the Socialism of the Utopians, which the authors of the _Manifesto_ so severely criticised. It is impossible to unde...

The _Communist Manifesto_ has been called the birth-cry of the modern scientific Socialist movement. When it was written, at the end of 1847, little remained of those great move...

Socialism, then, in the modern, scientific sense, is a theory of social evolution. Its hopes for the future rest, not upon the genius of some Utopia-builder, but upon the inhere...

Such was the mode of the development of capitalistic production in its first stage. In this stage a permanent wage-working class was formed, new markets were developed, many of...

No part of the theory of modern Socialism has called forth so much criticism and opposition as the doctrine of the class struggle. Many who are otherwise sympathetic to Socialis...

The first approach to a comprehensive treatment by Marx of the materialistic conception of history appeared in 1847, several months before the publication of the _Communist Mani...

The _geist_ of social and political evolution is economic, according to the Socialist philosophy. This view of the importance of man's economic relations involves some very radi...

[172] See "The Final Futility of Final Utility," in H. M. Hyndman's _Economics of Socialism_, for a remarkable criticism of the "final utility" theory, showing its identity with...

Many persons who have thought of Socialism as a scheme, the plan of a new social edifice, have been disappointed not to find in all the voluminous writings of Marx any detailed...

You ask me how the goal I have described is to be attained: "The picture," you say, "is attractive, but we would like to know how we are to reach the Promised Land which it pict...